Other Web Sites

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Arts, Crafts, Funnies (1-Sep-2014)

Embroidermodder -- Embroidermodder is a free software tool that allows the user to add custom modifications to their embroidery designs.

Diamond Willow Artisan Retreat -- They supply the meals, studio space (open 24 hours) and wonderfully comfortable accommodations surrounded by 11 acres of nature. Serenity, seclusion and solitude at Diamond Willow Artisan Retreat close to Turner Valley just South of Calgary, Alberta. Check out their schedule and enjoy a weekend.

Eva Rosenstand -- Eva Rosenstand/Clara Wæver is a Danish company where Jeannette gets many of her needlepoint works from. Not cheap, but excellent quality and always complete. Nordic Needle is the official Eva Rosenstand distributor for USA and Canada.

CMA Consumer Sense -- The "do not contact consumer service" of Canadian Marketing Association is very useful in getting yourself removed for 3 years from their member companies' mail, phone and fax lists.

Costco Online -- Costco Wholesale (food and non-food) is in more countries than you think.

eHow.com -- Clear instructions on how to do just about everything. This web site is a must see!

Epinions -- Before you buy anything... Get unbiased advice you can trust. Discover the right product for you. Find the best place to buy it.

Equifax Canada or Equifax Credit Bureau, US -- Get your personal credit report, and check it once a year to protect yourself against identity theft. For an on-line report you pay, but it is free via regular mail.

Canadian Credit Report -- Get your free credit report, and check it once a year to protect yourself against identity theft. For an on-line report you pay, but it is free via regular mail.

TopTenReviews -- In-depth software product reviews and comparisons. Good starting point when you are looking for new software.

TransUnion Canada or TransUnion, US -- Get your personal credit report, and check it once a year to protect yourself against identity theft. For an on-line report you pay, but it is free via regular mail.

Jean Auel's Earth's Children -- Remember these books: the Clan of the Cave Bears, the Valley of Horses, the Mammoth Hunters, and the Plains of Passage? If not you better start reading. The long awaited 5th book, the Shelters of Stone, will be out on April 30th, 2002. The 6th and final book is also in preparation.

Stage West Calgary -- Calgary's own dinner theatre with great buffets and great shows. Please note that Stage West enforces a semi-formal dress code.

Toastmasters International -- Toastmasters is the best way to improve your communication skills. Lose your fears of public speaking and learn skills that will help you be more successful in whatever path you've chosen in life. Join a local club.

Holland Shop -- Online shopping for those great Dutch products. Aimed at the Canadian market.

Holland Site -- HollandSite is de thuispagina voor Nederlanders in den Vreemde. Hier kunt u interessante links vinden naar het dagelijkse Hollandse leven. (HollandSite is the homepage for dutch people living overseas. It provides interesting links to the daily life in The Netherlands.)

Holland Trade Shop -- Online shopping for those great Dutch products. Aimed at the USA market.

Little Dutch Girl -- Online shopping for those great Dutch products in Old Town Spring, Texas.

Moppen.net -- A Dutch site with good old fashioned Dutch/Belgium jokes.

Publieke Omroep -- Stay in touch with the local Dutch radio, television and news.

Financial (26-Nov-2009)

Exchange Rates -- Currencies and convertion calculator for exchange rates. Graph of last days values using data from the Federal Reserve Bank.

Flight Simulation (23-Mar-2017)

X-Plane Flightsim Community -- You definitely should consider X-Plane 11 flight simular. It is currently (23-Mar-2017) in beta testing mode, but it looks extremely good and opens up a whole new world. X-Plane 10 is the current stable release, but you can have both for the price of one!!!

Food, Recipes (7-Jun-2010)

StillTasty -- How long will your favorite food or beverage stay safe and tasty? What's the best way to store it?

Cooks.com -- A very complete recipe site, with unit and diet calculators, nutrition facts, and forums.

Cook's Palate -- The Cook's Palate cookbook software is for those interested in organizing recipes and making cookbooks for home, school, fundraising, professional promotions and much more. I have tried it myself, and find that it provides all the basic functions and has a very nice presentation. Personally I still prefer Living Cookbook, but if you need something simple that is easy to learn then Cook's Palate might be your answer.

Culinary Café -- Cooking for you. One of the better organized sites for looking up recipes. Has an excellent spice encyclopedia.

Newlands Import Corporation -- Canadian Importers of Premium Rooibos Tea. Rooibos (red bush) Tea is grown in South Africa. The Premium (or 100%) Rooibos Tea is caffeine free and very high in anti-oxidants. Beside that, it just taste very good as well.

Genealogie Online -- (Dutch, but can be switched to English, German or French) Search in the many family trees published by others and/or publish your own family tree.

WieWasWie.nl -- Excellent source for Dutch folks. Has civil registry (burgerlijke stand) records of the birth, marriage and death registries, some going back as far as 1788. This database is still a work in progress, but there is a lot already. So far only in Dutch. Recommend to register and take out the free subscription to get all the benefits of this website. (Before 1-Jan-2013 it used to be http://www.genlias.nl)

GeneaKnowHow.net -- To support your genealogical research in the Netherlands and Belgium. This site is mainly in Dutch, but has a huge list of references to other web sites of which some are in other languages.

GeneaNet -- Genealogical Database Network. The free world network of users who use the Internet to search for their ancestors.

GenForum -- Looking for a forum (news group) on a certain surname? Look no further, you found it!!!

RootsWeb -- The oldest and largest FREE genealogy site supported by Ancestry.com.

Streekmuseum Oudheidkamer Reeuwijk -- Museum and history from the area around Reeuwijk, The Netherlands. They also have a genealogical ProGen database with over 100,000 names of some 400 families from that area. The web site is in Dutch.

Heraldry, Etymology (13-Mar-2015)

Blazon Search -- Searchable Armories, especially the most famous for Europe the Johan Baptiste Rietstap Armorial Général. Only French text and no pictures, but the website points where you can find the pictures.

WAZAMAR -- Elaborate Dutch web site which among others the more modern Coat of Arms.

Tall Pine Railroad -- With your monitor at 1024 x 768 resolution and a good sound card you are bound to enjoy this high standard model railroad site.

Trainboard.com -- Come board the train with TrainBoard.com for discussion forums and message boards for everything railroading. Featuring forums for specific railroads, all scales of model railroading, and anything related to trains and railroads.

Phone, Yellowpages, e-Mail, snail-Mail (26-Nov-2009)

Canada 411 -- When you are looking for a person or business in Canada.

Canada Post -- Information about personal and business mail services in Canada.

Canada Yellowpages -- When you are looking for a business or service in Canada, and the U.S.A.

Infobel -- That is "bel" with one "l"! The whole world at your finger tips.

InfoSpace -- Lots of stuff, but also White Pages, Yellow Pages, e-mail, etc. for various countries.

Super Pages -- When you are looking for a person or business in Canada, and other countries.

White Pages -- When you are looking for a person or business in Canada, but also other countries.

World Telephone Directories -- Gives you access to white and yellow pages of most countries in the world, plus interesting other info of those countries such as postal codes. Pitty that the main web page is only in Dutch.

Feng Shui Palace -- Feng shui is a way to mindfully organize your environment so that it fully supports you in life. This site educate those who wish to take part in arranging, de-cluttering, balancing and organizing their living and working spaces to bring harmony into their lives.

GaitherNet -- The Nashvill Network television airs every two weeks a 1-hour gospel program. I like their music and this is Bill and Gloria Gaither's website.

Jihad Watch -- Islam 101 is meant to help people become better educated about the fundamentals of Islam and to help the more knowledgeable better convey the facts to others.

One Country -- The online newsletter of the Bahá'í International Community.

Tenboche Monastery -- The official page for the Tengboche Monastery Development Project about Buddhism, ecology and sustainable tourism in the Sherpa region of Mount Everest, Nepal.

Space, Speed (13-Apr-2015)

Aurora Watch -- This website provides a real-time monitor of geomagnetic activity in the Edmonton region (Alberta, Canada), and similar magnetic latitudes, and offers a free email alert service to let you know if there may be aurora visible tonight.

Stellarium Astronomy Software -- Stellarium is a free software available for Windows, Linux/Unix and MacOSX. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time using OpenGL. With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.

Trucknet -- The site is in Dutch, but if you like truck pictures and trip stories then this web site is a must. This site belongs to my grand-nephew.

Techie & other Crazy Stuff (30-Sep-2017)

Numista -- Looking for information about a coin or to identify an unknown coin? Find it among 100,000+ world coins in the collaborative coin catalog, built and constantly enriched by the Numista community.

List of battery sizes -- Confused about replacement batteries, compatibility, etc.? Then this site is for you.

Nexus Magazine -- Obviously they want you to become a subscriber to their magazine, but under Products they offer lots of free downloadable articles like "The Forged Origins of The New Testament".

Travel, Restaurants, Maps (13-Apr-2015)

Accommodations

Diamond Willow Artisan Retreat -- They supply the meals, studio space (open 24 hours) and wonderfully comfortable accommodations surrounded by 11 acres of nature. Serenity, seclusion and solitude at Diamond Willow Artisan Retreat close to Turner Valley just South of Calgary, Alberta. Check out their schedule and enjoy a weekend.

Hostelling International - Canada -- Hostelling, especially in Canada. (My wife and I did a three week bicycle trip through the middle and south of Holland in 1988, while mainly staying in hostels. Although we were well in our 40th then, we enjoyed every minute of it.)

Hostels -- Fined a hostel in 100 nations, over 600 cities, worldwide. You don't have to be young or a backpacker. Simple, very affordable, and meet lots and lots of interesting people.

Ice Hotel Canada -- Tour or spend a night in the Canada's Ice Hotel close to Quebec City. Their fifth season is from January until April 2005. Don't miss it.

AirPano -- Have a look at 360 degree aerial panorama, 3D virtual tours around the world, and photos of the most interesting places on the earth BEFORE you travel there!

Custom Woolen Mills -- A working museum located near Carstairs, Alberta. They have been producing woolen and exotic fiber products on their unique industrial revolution machinery for over 25 years. Their products include: carded wools, rovings, spinning rolls, batts, wool yarns, knitting kits, socks, comforters, mattress pads and hand-woven blankets. Visit them and take a tour, browse through their showroom and find out more about wool, and how they process it.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump -- Just north-west of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, is one of the world's oldest, largest and best preserved buffalo jump. An absolute must when you are in the area.

National Anthems -- National anthem music and words, and the flags of all 192 countries.

PaSu Farm -- PaSu farm is a truly unique combination of Restaurant, Fine Dining, a Boutique with Quality Handcrafts, and of course a working Farm.

Town of Cochrane Mural Mosiac -- Cochrane is Northwest of Calgary and East of Banff, in the foothills of the Rockies. This mural can be seen in the Cochrane Ranch House. Each tile is 1 foot square, and is an individual picture created by a different artist. All of them together form this huge mural. You can click on each of the tiles to see them in detail.

Soulvines -- Laurie MacKay is an accredited Sommelier, or wine steward. She gives courses, does wine tours and co-host on CBC's Homestretch.A Sommelier is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, normally working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine service as well as wine and food matching.

World Time Server -- World Time Server provides the most accurate current local times of any world clock on the Internet. Keep your own PC time accurate with their FREE Atomic Clock Sync.

Web Browsers (28-Oct-2016)

HTML 5 Test -- Test to see how ready your browser is to support HTML 5.

Firefox -- Discover the Web -- Firefox is the new, more secure, small, easy to use, and yet fast web browser from the Mozilla team. The better choice for Internet browsing. What I like most is the tabbed browsing.

Bob Cerelli's Windows Pages -- The main goal of this site is to provide clear, accurate and easy to understand information regarding Windows95/98/2000.

Easter Egg Archive -- Amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch. There are thousands of them, and they can be quite entertaining, if you know where to look.

HotWired Webmonkey -- Another neat site for WebSite developers. Excellent tutorials if you are new to the business and need a kick-start.

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials -- Here is where you learm about HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XLS, DTD, DOM, JavaScript, VBScript, etc., etc.. The best part is that it is not only good, but it is free as well. Highly recommended.

Adobe SVG download -- Get ready to download Adobe® SVG Viewer 3 and experience the next generation of data-driven, interactive, and personalized graphics on the web.

Fourth Ray Software -- A small business based in Houston that just published their FRSLinkCheck program, a tool to check the validity of external links on your web pages. I have been using it since their previous version.

Web Miscellaneous (2-Apr-2010)

Internet Slang Worsk -- On this site you will find a list of slang terms, acronyms and abbreviations as used in websites, ICQ chat rooms, blogs, SMS, and Internet forums - a complete dictionary of slang.

CutePDF -- Create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. FREE for personal, commercial, gov or edu use! No watermarks! No popup Web ads! Now supports 64-bit Windows.

Download The Webshots Desktop -- Add colour to your day and desktop. Claims to be the most popular desktop wallpaper and screen saver on the Net!

FastPDF -- Fast PDF is a web service that converts Microsoft Word documents into PDF files. Using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader others can access your document regardless of their exact hardware or software.

Western Heritage (19-Nov-2016)

Whisky (whiskey) (25-Nov-2009)

Malt Madness -- When you are interested in single malt whisky then this web site is for you. From beginner's guide to distillery data, and rating lists. It has also links to Malt Maniacs and WhiskyFun.com.

Scotch Blog -- An online news and commentary site focused solely on the subject of whisky and primarily on the Scotch whisky industry.